This blog post specifically looks at Facebook investment and trading. Q1 2017 quarterly data is included in the numbers and ratios below. Before we start marveling at the tremendous growth of FB, one item that stands out is that the effective tax rate has almost halved …

When the whole investing world is feeling unsafe, where will they rush to? Answer: US Treasuries OR may be Gold. But Gold has many other purposes as well, like inflation hedge, Store of value, etc. So let’s confine ourselves to the US Treasuries here. US treasuries …

Consumer spending accounts for 70% of the US economy. Homes and Cars/Auto are the biggest ticket items that consumers spend their money on. Unlike other purchases that may use money earned in the last paycheck, the money spent on Homes and Auto are from loans and …

There are many economic models to predict recessions and these models are primarily based on Business cycle variables, bond yields and yield spreads.In this post, lets look at a couple that are readily available on FRED website. I. Smoothed U.S. Recession Probabilities Smoothed recession probabilities for …

We talked about valuing S&P 500 Intrinsic valuation in the previous post, lets value the S&P 500 index using relative value method in this post. We can use many valuation measures for comparing the value of the security against other securities or against the security’s historical values. …